Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Life is difficult.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.